Hostinger Review 2016: Is it Worth Buying?

Summary:

Hostinger is the cheap hosting provider where you can avail hosting packages along with all the features that require for running a smooth WordPress, Joomla, or any major CMS platform. Overall, it is enough good and worth using.

So, you landed here on this Hostinger Review to know everything about the host such as what they offer, features, benefits and the most important, Is it really worth using.

I have already shared some of the best wordpress hosting providers to help you choose the best wordpress host, for quality hosting I recommend you must visit the linked page.

If you have very limited budget cannot buy a premium hosting then here are free web hosting services which can be used for creating a blog without spending a single penny. But, this approach isn’t good at all and if you’re going to start a blog for making money then picking the paid host would be a great move.

Let’s come back to our topic; I mean Hostinger review.

Hostinger is a free and paid hosting provider where you have two option to start a blog. With a free hosting, you can get a free subdomain and hosting account, but it is not a good choice if you really want to make money online because you’ll get very limited resources.

When we talk about paid hosting account, they offer a free domain name, 99.9% server uptime, drag and drop site builder, 24/7 customer support, 30 days money back guarantee and much more. In paid package, you’ll get a lot of features and benefits to run a smooth wordpress blog or website.

They have a custom made cPanel for managing your hosting account with ease, and any beginner user can understand it within a matter of minutes. You can monitor your account statics, file manager, domains, and email using it.

It looks like they are providing exceptional features. So, to know about them let’s discuss all the stuff they have below in details.

Hostinger Free and Paid Hosting Review: Is it Worth it?

I have divided this Hostinger review into two sections, Free and Paid Hosting. I do believe it will help you understand in a better way and thus guide you whether its worth using or not. You might know, Hostinger is one of the best free wordpress hosting providers as well as offer paid services also.

As they offer free web hosting, So you can start your first or test site without spending a single penny for buying a hosting account and domain name. For advanced and professional features you have to buy paid hosting.

Let dive and know what they are offering;

Hostinger Free Hosting Review

Free Sub-Domain

Have no money to purchase own “.com” domain name? Well, they are free offering sub-domains to start a blog or website. But it looks ugly, for instance; subdomain will be like this: “examplesite.hostiner.com”

Are you serious about blogging? If so, you must buy a TLD (.com, .net, or .org), it costs you only $10 ~ $12/year. You can buy .com domain using NameCheap.

Free Web Hosting

By using Hostinger, you can get a hosting account to create a website without paying a cent. You are allowed to store upto 2 GB data and 100 GB monthly bandwidth along with website builder and 2 email accounts. Unfortunately, your website will be inaccessible in case of using exceeded bandwidth and CPU.

They provide a customized control panel to help you manage websites easily as they offer upto 5 websites in a free account. Another great thing is they don’t insert any ads, and it’s ads free wordpress hosting.

In a nutshell, you can use this type of free service to learn any major CMS such as WordPress or use it just for testing new plugins and themes.

Let’s talk about the main part (Paid Hosting) of this review of Hostinger:

Hostinger Paid Hosting Review

FREE Domain Name

You need a website so what you do?

If you buy a domain name and web hosting it’ll cost around $50 to $80 per year. Normally a domain registration cost is $8 to $15 and hosting cost start at $3 to $5 per month. What if you get both domain name and hosting at just $2.41 per month. Isn’t great deal?

Well, Hostinger offers free domain registration on the purchase of Premium and Business plans. But, it is not something new because every good host usually offers the same deal when you buy web hosting from them.

If you choose a premium hosting plan, the price will be almost $28.92 per year which is pretty cheap. Unfortunately, they only provide free registration of .com TLD, but it’s still great opportunity to get free website name.

Uptime

It’s all in vain if your site has good content but is down against competitor sites, Is it not? Consideration of server uptime is one of the most important and crucial factors whenever choosing a web host. Server downtime happened, and I have experienced it with almost all the web hosting companies that I have used. But there is no need to worry because downtimes are tiny and acceptable. Keep in mind one thing; you must buy webhosting from a company who claims to deliver maximum server time.

However, most of the users who use a free account to host website often complaint of frequent downtimes but remember it’s a FREE service and quality comes with money :). There are alway limitations when using free service so for highest server-uptime you have to buy paid plan. The company claims to provide 99.99% uptime for all premium packages.

Control Panel and Site Builder

The control panel is a bit different than the traditional cPanel. Hostinger uses a custom made control panel where everything is simplified so you can manage website easily. Even a newbie can easily use it, and all the possible functions are available including information about bandwidth, CPU, Email accounts, DNS records, and storage usage, etc.

You can easily create sub-domains, database, and park domains. There are many other features also available within the Cpanel such as managing email accounts and database, FTP account, file managers, and IP blocker.

They offer a free Zyro Builder and hundreds of CMS scripts such as WordPress, Joomla, etc. with one-click auto install functionality. So, newbies can install WordPress using this One-Click installer within 2 minutes.

There are hundreds of free template that can be customized using Zyro drag and drop builder. You can install any template with just one-click and can customize it with drag and drop feature.

Customer Support

Ticketing System and Live Chat are the main ways to contact customer support which is best when it comes to web hosting.

Why?

It’s simple, Live Chat is the great solution to get in touch with the technical team whenever you face any issue. But, chat is only available for Paid customers, and available within your cPanel’s dashboard located at the right bottom. So, you must have a premium account to get this perk.

Additionally, their response time to tickets especially when you’re a paid user is unbelievable. They reply within few hours to fix your issues as soon as possible.

They also have knowledgebase library where you can find articles about features, troubleshooting guides, and other technical information related to hosting issues.

Domain Name Registration

Hostinger is an ICANN accredited domain registrar using which you can buy a domain just at $8.99 for .com, $9.99 for .net, and $11.99 for .org TLD extension.

.Com TLD price seems to be much lower compared to many other registrars. In other words, I can say they are the cheap domain registrar.

Looking for a different extension? Then you can get .xyz domain name just at $0.99/year.

Note: The renewal prices of different TLD’s is higher than the first year. However, the difference is just a couple of dollars. They also charge a domain transfer fee which is annoying 🙁

Hosting Plans and Pricing

Hostinger offers two types of web hosting packages, “Unlimited Hosting” and “Cloud VPS” packages. The Unlimited Hosting comes with various plans named as Starter, Premium, and Business. Whereas, Cloud VPS hosting categorized into six different plans.

You can get an affordable and cheap wordpress hosting with a lot of features including free domain, unmetered hosting, unlimited bandwidth, custom Cpanel, etc. Below, you can see the brief information about plans and prices.

Unlimited Hosting Package

As I mentioned above, Unlimited hosting package divided into three plans, Starter, Premium, and business plan. With “Starter” plan, you’ll get 100GB bandwidth, 2GB storage, free domain name, premium technical support, and one Email account along with dozens of other features.

For unmetered data storage and bandwidth, you have to upgrade to Premium or Business package. If you just want to try Hostinger then going with “Starter” plan would be a great option, and you will pay few dollars per month.

All the packages come with 50 auto installer scripts, Website builder, Weekly backups, DNS Manager, Domain redirects, Email account manager, and DB backups. So, you will get everything which required to run a website efficiently.

Cloud VPS

Hostinger offer six hosting plans in Cloud VPS so you can choose any plan that meets your requirements and budget. Prices are pretty low compared to features they are offering. They use latest technologies such as SSD drives to provide stable and reliable service. Enterprise data backup is another best feature and you can restore data anytime you want.

Besides that, there is plenty of OS options available which enable you to run a specific software that is not available on the shared hosting plan. Hostinger offers RAID 10 protection, 24/7 DDoS monitoring, full control over root and real-time usage information as well as network statistics graph. They also provide dedicated IP address in every VPS hosting plan.

Payment Gateways

Decided to give them a shot? You can buy their hosting service using multiple payment methods such as Paypal, Visa Card, Amex, MasterCard (WorldWide purchase) and Discover, Diner’s, Maestro and JCB (The US and Europe only).

30 Days Refund Policy

Hostinger offers all the features which you can get from any popular hosting service such as BlueHost, SiteGround or InMotion at very competitive prices. If we compare Hostinger benefits with BlueHost, you’ll find that BlueHost is quite similar to Hostinger, but they have millions of customers worldwide with a positive reputation. On top of that, BlueHost is also recommended by WordPress.org

It is clear that Hostinger is low-cost hosting service which offers everything which required to run a smooth wordpress blog or website. But they are still offering industry traditional 30 days money back guarantee to gain customers trust. You can ask for the refund anytime within these days without worrying about losing money.

Conclusion

Now, this is the most difficult part of this Hostinger Review, Is it recommended to use?

Well, if we compare prices, features, storage and benefits with other companies then Hostinger offer a lot of stuff at cheap prices.

Right now, I am using their services to test deeply and will update this Hostinger Review shortly. I will share all the statistics, speed test, and server uptime as soon as possible.

But so far, It looks like that Hostinger provides enough features and benefits at a reasonable price which insist me to say “you should try it at least once”.

[Note: I personally using BlueHost for one of my projects and happy with them. You must give them a try at least]

Hostinger is the cheap hosting provider where you can avail hosting packages along with all the features that require for running a smooth WordPress, Joomla, or any major CMS platform. Overall, it is enough good and worth using.

Muhammad Imran

Muhammad Imran is an enthusiast blogger and engineering graduate. He has good skills in WordPress and Blogspot, Blogging Tips, SEO, Make Money Online, Computer tips and also Creating tutorials. He loves to share inspiring and creative ideas with online community related to blogging.

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Thank you for your review. It was one of those which encouraged me to sign up with Hostinger (also the Black Friday deal helped). And I’m very happy I did that. So just wanted to say thank you for pointing me in the right direction, towards a reliable service.Hope your article also helped others and maybe my feedback will to. Continue the good job.

Thank you @Chris for appreciation. Soon, I will update this posts to add Speed Test, Server Load Test, and Uptime reports for more insights about Hostinger . Apparently, it looks like they are offering good stuff at good price.

happened to find your article online, very nice and informative, yet even though it was written yesterday, it is already a bit outdated… Since today, the live support works perfectly fine from the cpanel, check it yourself, can’t wait for the update!
(a bit of a geek who follows most hosting related updates)
Have a nice day 🙂

Hello Dorian, thanks for your comment. I have checked everything while writing this review. And regarding support, I verified that they don’t offer any Live Chat option. Maybe, they offer live support in some specific countries.

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